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Sony has launched a teaser ad campaign for a new "revolutionary" Vaio laptop that appears destined to debut at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Intel plans to establish a new company called SpectraWatt to develop solar energy technology and produce solar cells, the chip giant said Monday.

Whatever Microsoft Corp. may have done wrong with Windows XP, it looks like it has got one thing absolutely right: the so-called "native support" for wireless LANs.

Sony Electronics announced on Wednesday it will use Transmeta's Crusoe processor in its new Vaio notebook, which will be available in the U.S. next month.

Sony has released the first notebook to be powered by Transmeta's Crusoe chip on the Australian market.

Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW), Hong Kong's most prominent Internet startup and the new owner of the territory's incumbent telecommunications carrier, on Thursday reported a net loss of HK$35 million (US$4.4 million) for the six months ended June 30.

CI is more than just keeping tabs on your competitors. CI is the systematic legal, moral, and ethical gathering of business information on competitors, customer, and regulators. In the first of a two-part series, InfoWorld examines the act of collecting competitive intelligence.

Hong Kong Internet company Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. on Thursday announced final agreement on a partnership with Australian telecommunications carrier Telstra Corp. to create joint ventures in Internet backbone capacity, data center services and wireless communications and content.

Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW), one of Asia's largest Internet companies, said Tuesday it plans to launch its Network of the World (NOW) interactive television service in Japan by mid-2001.

While on a business trip, Bob Greschke thought he'd forgotten to pack his new, lightweight laptop. That's when he knew he'd made the right decision to buy it. "I had to keep checking the bag to make sure the notebook was there--the bag was so light, it felt empty," says Greschke, a Socorro, New Mexico-based programmer for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The 5-pound IBM Corp. ThinkPad 600X that Greschke bought in April weighs 3 pounds less than his old Toshiba Corp. 730XCDT notebook.

Hong Kong Internet investment company Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. (PCCW) yesterday announced a joint venture with Hong Kong-based Commercial Radio Productions Ltd. that will add the content creator's programming to PCCW's Network of the World (NOW) multimedia broadband service.